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== Sistering ==
== Sistering ==
'''Sistering''' is the operation of taking a MOS pattern xL ys and reversing the roles of large and small steps, thus creating a yL xs pattern, called the ''sister'' of xL ys. It is called thus because a MOS pattern and its sister share the same MOS as a subset (for example, [[5L 2s]] and [[2L 5s]] both have [[2L 3s]] subsets), thus they share the same parent on the tree of MOS patterns (which corresponds to the [[scale tree]], via taking generator ranges). (More generally, given an r-step scale pattern a_1 X_1... a_r X_r we could call the set of all patterns a_1 X_pi(1) ... a_r X_pi(r) over all permutations pi on {1, ..., r} the ''sisterhood'' of a_1 X_1... a_r X_r.)
'''Sistering''' is the operation of taking a MOS pattern xL ys and reversing the roles of large and small steps, thus creating a yL xs pattern, called the ''sister'' of xL ys. It is called thus because a MOS pattern and its sister share the same MOS as a subset (for example, [[5L 2s]] and [[2L 5s]] both have [[2L 3s]] subsets), thus they share the same parent on the tree of MOS patterns (which corresponds to the [[scale tree]], via taking generator ranges). (More generally, given an ''r''-step scale pattern ''a<sub>1</sub>X<sub>1</sub> ... a<sub>r</sub>X<sub>r</sub>'' with ''r'' step sizes ''X''<sub>1</sub> > ... > ''X<sub>r</sub>'', we call the set of all patterns ''a<sub>π(1)</sub>X<sub>1</sub> ... a<sub>π(r)</sub>X<sub>r</sub>'' over all permutations π on {1, ..., ''r''} the ''sisterhood'' of ''a<sub>1</sub> X<sub>1</sub> ... a<sub>r</sub>X<sub>r</sub>''.)


If xL ys has a generator range between a\x and b\(x+y) (it always holds that a < b), then its sister yL xs has a generator range between b\(x+y) and (b-a)\y.
If xL ys has a generator range between a\x and b\(x+y) (it always holds that a < b), then its sister yL xs has a generator range between b\(x+y) and (b-a)\y.